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TheSeacoast Guitar Society
is a non-profit organization dedicated to making life better for acoustic guitar
players and fans of acoustic guitar music.Seacoast Songwriters Vol I, released
in November 2001 is the first compilation CD out on the Seacoast Guitar Society
label. It features two cuts each by seven local artists: Cormac
McCarthy, Joyce Andersen,Peter
Black, Heidi Batchelder, Craig Werth, Kate Redgate and Tom
Richter. The "Seacoast region," as it is called locally, is centered around
Portsmouth, NH, but with people in Massachusetts and Southern Maine participating.
It has long been a stronghold of the arts, especially music. The geography of
the region has favored solo and duo performers who find work in the taverns,
clubs and resorts of Northern New England. Many of the artists have families,
other careers and personal roots which keep them local, though a few musicians
from the region have made national names for themselves.

It is one of the few circuits where musicians can support themselves
in an independent way, playing original and contemporary music, and there are
hundreds of very skilled and seasoned performers choosing to work in this circuit
rather than moving to Nashville or New York. The intent of this recording and
the others that will hopefully follow is to celebrate and call attention to
this group of artists, and help them be more appreciated in a star-driven entertainment
world that focuses on national and international artists that are controlled
by large entertainment corporations. There is no market-chasing or formulas,
and here you find a listenable, memorable, communicative and durable body of
art that holds up to any set of standards.

Northern New England, which has brought us Robert Frost, E.B.
White and many other great, straight-shooting writers, is also quietly bringing
us songwriters like these, who deserve to be wider known and better appreciated.

The Songs:

Cormac McCarthy: Light at the Top of the Stairs, Wild Beneath
My Window